complicated than the ordinary light duty vehicles. these are exactly the kinds of information that we're going to be seeking over the coming days, including tomorrow is convenient. and you expect >> because of those supply chain issues that we could see impacts on the us as a result of those supply chain issues. >> we want to get a little more fidelity on how disruptive it can be. again, we're not talking about a single point of failure that it's the only possible place to get through or even something that is as impact at full as some of the issues that are the panama canal, for example this does not automatically mean that a trip to the east coast has to be substituted with a triptan for the west coast, which would be much more of a cost impact. it can probably be accommodated up and down the east coast. but the effect clearly will not be trivial >> thank you. mr. >> secretary, you said that you had received a request for emergency funding from the maryland for worries. can you tell us what that number was?

i was just notified that this is that right now? >> just thinking about economic impact each day that the borders shut down. what does economic impact? >> well again, there's between last i checked between $100,200 million of value that comes through that port every day. and about $2 in wages that are at stake every day. and that's one of the areas we're most concerned about. it's one thing for a container or a vehicle, or a sugar shipment to be absorbed or a common but they did somewhere else. but these longshore workers, if goods aren't moving, they're not working now. right now, there is work taking place even inside of that bridge because of the work that has to be done to offload some of the vehicles

that are that are stuck there and get that back on a surface transportation to go out to other sites. so they're likely working right now, but that work won't last long and that's one of our main areas of concern is i thank you very much. >> so menn, you look at cfr the code of federal regulations you earlier talked about how you inspect these vehicles because guard inspects these vehicles >> is it done on a >> regular basis to see if all of those items are being followed? or do you do spot checks? >> pretty thorough. so every ship that comes to united states ports has to report to the coast guard customs and border protection 96 hours in advance. what we do then is look at cargo, look at the vessel history, look at the individuals on board, and we'll put them through a risk matrix to determine based on their past history and a number

another set of factors on whether we should board and inspect or not. but it's a pretty thorough process >> vice enrol and when does cleanup began? >> because we're hearing after the first stage of rescue and recovery >> and the question is, once >> cleanup starts, will there be at least one channel to come through because of the importance and the uniqueness this support, not just for baltimore but for the country to include the midwest with the farming equipment that goes on the css line that's right there. and also how are you going to push back to republicans? who don't want anything to go through from his biden administration budgetary with the presence as he wants to pay for everything. >> i'll take the latter and leave it to you on the channel >> look >> infrastructure is, or at least ought to be a bipartisan

priority. i know so that partisanship has gotten in the way of some important functions and expenditures uh, but i would also note that the infrastructure package that was passed is known as the bipartisan infrastructure law for a reason, some, not all republicans across the aisle to work with president biden and work with democrats and get this done it is our hope that that same spirit will prevail here. and i would also remind any member who might find themselves on the fence when this went, any requests that might come through materialized that today this is happening in baltimore tomorrow. it could be your district and we really need to stand together red, blue, and purple to get these things done. >> what about the channel? >> the >> cleanup and the chance cleaner in terms of the debris assessment removal. >> now, >> again, the army corps of engineers under general spellman are being very aggressive in mobilizing equipment beginning the underwater surveys and the necessary actions ordered to first understand what they're

facing in terms of challenges with not just the debris on the surface, but underwater. so they can give you an idea on what their assessment looks like. so we can >> say we say the process cleanup, and possibly opening a channel is already underway because you are assessing what's going on down below >> so admiral gilreath, the coast guard incident commander in general, spellman for the army corps very tightly linked and coordinated on the necessary actions to do this not waiting in order to begin this process. now, we do need to be sensitive because the state of maryland is conducting the body recovery operations in and around the same area where the debris assessment removal needs to take place. but again, in terms of those details, army corps best to answer that. thanks >> mr. secretary vice admiral what kind of changes could this lead to the operations at the ports? like could we see tug escorts going through for bridges like this? and would

that make a difference in this for us again, i think it's too soon to speculate whether any design feature or other practice would have made a difference. but that's the kind of thing that ntsb does. and they do and well, at the end of their investigation, they issue recommendations which often become part of policy design or even text analogy for the future. and it's part of why we'll be very interested in their work >> thanks, screen. >> we separate. you are seeing an impact on inflation and you said that the breach was not made to withstand such an impact, but should he be reinforced. during the past decade so again, i don't know how abridge possibly could withstand the forces that were at play when this vessel >> about the same size as a nimitz class us aircraft carrier struck the key supported beam for that bridge, but we will always, as always learn from the tsb investigation was the first bit

inflation too soon to say, i think this is a definitely a different ballpark from what we saw the west coast issues in 2021. but that's part of what we hope to gather more data on soon. i will say a lot of the disinflation that we've seen has been result of the work that the president led to improve and smooth out our supply chains. we see a clear relationship between supply chains and inflation. but this is more localized and more specialized and what we saw in 2021 >> secondary >> buttigieg, have you or the president been able to reach the family members of the sixth victims or do you plan to try to contact them? >> first of all, our hearts and our thoughts are with them. i know right now they are shifting from yesterday where they were really in the mode of hoping for news to today facing the worst kind of news, you possibly could i can't speak to anybody else's conversations with them other than that, i know governor more spent time speaking with them as i said you had said earlier that there's a process by which the

coast guard will keep track of shifts maintenance >> previous incidents. and we already know that the dali was involved in it. they the previous incident, not similar to this one, but incident nonetheless so what's the shift on the radar for the coast guard in terms of keeping an eye on it. and if not, the second follow-up question is, if ships have already been flagged, if you will, for having been involved in incidents, what's the process for them when they're coming into a united so maybe i'll answer the first part of that question first, it's it's the same process for every ship. >> we >> get the notification 96 hours in advance of arriving at a us port. we do an examination together with customs and border protection a review of the histories of these ships and other factors, cargos that they carry and so on and so forth to do a risk ranking and then make a determination about whether a local coast guard team and cbp participates as

well whether we should do a boarding and do a safety examination there. in terms of the history of the ship, again, i think this one incident that has been discussed within the media, i think we need to take that within context in terms of what may or may not have happened with a different crew on board, different situation, different pilots and so on and so forth. maybe not related to the vessel condition so to speak. but in terms of our examination, this particular ship had a fairly good safety record >> thank you so much thank you so much, guys. thank you, sir. thank you. >> great. thank you. >> i can all right. thanks, guys thank you. so they're on the baltimore bridge collapse quite a lengthy update from the transportation secretary, pete buttigieg, and vice admiral peter go ta, who is speaking. they're on behalf of the coast guard, which is so involved in these efforts that they have there but bottom line, this is

obviously a tragedy and we heard that, but this is the six construction workers, so they're still trying to recover their bodies, but it really speaks to the economic challenges that this is going to create because we heard from these officials, most of the cargo traffic is in the part of the port that is completely cut off by the dali and they're not giving any type of estimates on getting that channel clear or rebuilding the bridge? >> yeah. secretary buttigieg saying flat-out quote, rebuilding will not be quick, easy, or cheap, but we will get it done. or they outlined four priorities. essentially, one of them being to reopen the port the ease supply chain issues that have been caused by this apparent accident. you have some 8,000 jobs that are tied to activities at the port. it's one of the biggest ports in the country, if not the biggest for importing and exporting not only vehicles, but also forming equipment as well on top of that, one of the priorities is rebuilding the bridge and also rerouting

traffic. so it is quite a mess that's been caused by this. but again, we're hearing the white house through these officials essentially saying that we will take care of this as so far we will fit the bill, potentially seeking some recompense if it's found that there was negligence or perhaps some kind of nefarious activity. what we're summing on board that caused this accident? no. no indication of that yet to be clear, we do want to go to cnn's brian todd, who's there at the site for us. so brian, what are you seeing on the ground today >> well boris what we can tell you is one of the critical updates we can give you is that of the six victims that have been presumed to have perished in the water from this accident? no bodies have yet been recovered. that's pretty much the headline from the ground here, divers and other teams still in the water looking for those victims. so that will be an update that we're gonna be looking very anxiously toward getting. anytime they can give it. i thought some other headlines from that news conference were very interesting that the entire crew of the dali is

still onboard the vessel, that they are cooperating with investigators that there were 4,700 containers on board the ship, including 50 six containers with hazmat materials on board the ship, two containers actually went overboard in the accident, but those two containers does not contain has about materials. so that was kind of an interesting update again, secretary buttigieg and the vice admiral work peppered with several questions as to whether this bridge was built well enough to withstand this kind of impact. here's what the secretary had to say about that a short time ago >> we do know is a bridge like this one completed in the 1970s, was simply not made to withstand a direct impact on a critical support peer from a vessel that weighs about 200 million pounds, orders of magnitude bigger then cargo ships that were in service in that region at the time that the bridge was first built

>> secretary buttigieg also said that there really a serious debate in the engineering community as to whether any bridge can withstand that kind of an impact from a vessel. that law i will tell you one thing, though, morris, there was a structural engineering expert on cnn's air earlier today. his name is timothy lorena qi said it was his opinion that this whole thing could have been avoided if this bridge or the facilities around it had what he called pure protections those are what he called large cylindrical structures that are upstream and downstream from port that are basically designed to be struck by a ship if it encounters problems like this. so again, this debate is going to continue as to whether this bridge number one was built to withstand this kind of thing. and the secretary said there's a debate on that. but whether there should have been added protections around the bridge. i guess those are facts that we're going to be learning as the investigation continues for us. >> yeah, we are set to hear from the ntsb later tonight. we'll see what they say. they have a press conference scheduled for 08:00 p.m. so keep an eye out for that. brian

todd. thanks so much for that report around. >> let's bring in cnn's tom foreman to take us through what we know at this point. tom the search that brian was just talking about a minute ago, why is this so hard to do? well, the truth is, this is an incredibly difficult and dangerous job. they're undertaking here. yes, they're using side-scan sonar to locate some things underneath. but when you talk about the divers going beneath think about all the chaos you see above the water. put all of that and more below the water where you can't really see in these divers are trying to work and terrible conditions on there where they might encounter metal wires to remain this amount of debris, any one of which could put one of the divers into danger. and let's talk just a little bit about the water depth here. this is a little deceptive peptide because you can't really get it to scale with the size of the ship. in some areas, the channel here is such that these ships are only three feet above the bottom. so these divers have to be careful of the ship moving. this moving is a very difficult environment to searching. >> yeah, we just learned part of its grounded to be sure. we

learned that from officials there at the white house. so in this environment and consider this is not click crystal clear water. i mean, how can searchers be confident that they're not missing something? >> i truly think they can't be confident of that because if we say this is three football fields long bridge is a myelin and a half. let's say that you could even constrain it and say you believe that what you're looking for is in this area, which i think you can't say now with all the currents and everything happened. but even if you could do this, imagine this briana, if you were standing at the end of myelin, a half stretch as big as a football field. and you had a flashlight and you're told, now go find something in that space. that's incredibly difficult to do, let alone underwater, let alone in the cold, and let alone with the notion that, that you have all these currents at work. you have the flow of the river. you have the tide coming and going, you have other currents, you have wind up top there are many

things so that you could search an area here and you can come back and find out that it's completely different area, in effect in a few hours that's why i think this job, though it may sound simple is not simple at all. and i don't, i don't know how long and how well they can continue this. i know they're going to try to go as long as they can. but this is a huge job in the search space with each hour gets bigger, not smaller. >> tom thank you so much for taking us through that would do appreciate it. >> force joining us now is sal mercogliano? he's a former merchant mariner? he's now a maritime historian at campbell university, where he also teaches about maritime industry policy, sell. thank you so much for being with us. i do want to take a step back and start with the standard process because in a typical scenario, there would be harbor pilots who were very familiar with this waterway, helping to guide the ship out. so i'm wondering how this process of, of getting a boat out of the port is supposed to work generally. and then

what's supposed to happen when they notice something is going wrong? >> well, thanks for having me. there were two pilots onboard to chesapeake bay pilots, we believe a senior pilot and a junior pilot pilot in training. those pilots. do you provide the expertise, the knowledge of the local kind of lay the land to the ship's master. >> when an >> incident like this happens, when the ship loses power and let me be clear, i sail ships for many years. the worst sound you can experience on a ship is silence, because that means you've lost propulsion, you've lost steering. >> they >> would immediately go through their procedures for this. and in this case one of the things that ship tried to do is restart its main engine they also got on the radio issue that mayday let the bridge crew know that this was a problem. it was coming that way. we saw coast guard vessels and other tugs come to the assistance. but unfortunately, when you lose power on a vessel that large, you are really at the mercy of inertia and winds and currents so i do want to go to

some new fresh sound. we have just into cnn and play it for you. this is a port worker who says that the dali cargo ship suffered a severe electrical problem while it was dark for two days before the crash. let's listen to the sound now it was just him power failures left and right so whenever it left port some of us feel like it should have left when it was daylight, so they could take care and see what issues they were having to. but we can't stop the ships from leave import the issues that it was having and shipping line knowing hi, the issues at hand, they shouldn't have let the ship leap port. antony got it under control honestly, it was here for two days because it was a two day working ship and those two days they were having serious power outages >> that is significant cell that is julie mitchell. she's a code administrator of container royalty. she's saying that for two days the ship was having

issues with power. if that is the case, what's your reaction to that >> well, it's been something that's been said and i'm glad to hear that it's being confirmed. this type of situation should have been reported to the pilot when the pilots came on board, one of the things that the pilots will assume on boarding a vessel so is that the ship's master, the commander of the vessel, has done all the pre-check. they needed. if there was issues with the electrical issue, then the pilot may have requested either going out through the day or have the tugboats remain with a dolly through the voyage that obviously was not done or we don't move, it's done yet. this is why ntsb and the coast guard are on the ship's right now questioning the crew and the pilots. they're going to want to hear what information was given to the pilots when they boarded. unfortunately, it doesn't sound like there was any sort of reporting mechanism with a dock workers could relay this to either the pilot or the coast guard yeah. >> no doubt. federal investigators will be looking

into those claims. so i'm just wondering, and this may be a very broad question, but i'm curious to get your perspective. >> these, these power failures, why do they happen? why would a ship like this start struggling to have maintenance over its power? >> well, unfortunately it does happen. it could be anything from contaminated fuel, your water intakes getting clogged, which will turn the engines off to preserve them. or there could be electrical hen the sht power, the emergency generator kicked on, but then you you see that big, huge plume of black smoke come out. that's an indicator that they were trying to restart the main engine. we then see the main engine come back on and then it goes back out again. so there seemed to have been a systematic issue. the big issue here is going to be tracing down one of the reasons you heard the question to the coast guard about tracking down the records on the ship. what's its path? let's records has it had issues. unfortunately, the us coast guard, which is given that mission of doing port state control infections. this is a very low priority mission.

there's not enough personnel and money allocated it to do full inspections. i would say of as many ships as we need to be inspected that is an important point and really still a lot of unanswered questions, especially with this report that they were having electrical issues for two days before it took off, >> sal mercogliano very much. appreciate your expertise, sir. >> thank grammy bars. >> of course. thank you. >> still had a no republican litmus test. what questions applicants were asked when looking for a job at the republican national committee plus a clear 2024 message, a democrat who made reproductive rights a campaign we'll now flip a state house seat in a red state by a lot. we'll discuss and just moments i sat and i >> than i ever, yeah, that was like the wall with like slide

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officials are also trying to understand the scope of the economic impact right now, all cargo traffic is suspended into and out of the port of baltimore, which could put a huge strain on the economy and supply chains here with us now is democratic senator from maryland, ben cardin. sir, thank you for being with us and we're so sorry for certainly what your state is going through at this point in time. and honestly, what all of us may be experiencing from this. you were just out the site. can you tell us what you learn there? >> well, your honor, the first is good to be with you. it's it's catastrophic. it's not just the knocking out the bridge for transportation, which is a key part of our beltway for north-south traffic on i95 the, port of baltimore has been closed down when the leading ports in the east coast of the united states so we're just absorbing the magnitude of the loss. obviously, loss of six lives is first, the recovery is taking place in

that regard. we've gotta get that shipping channel opened as quickly as possible. it's going to be difficult. and that bridge is going to have to be replaced >> cnn affiliate itn interviewed a port worker who says that the ship suffered a severe electrical problem in the two days before it left the port, she felt, quote, they shouldn't have let the ship leave port what questions does learning that raised for you >> well, the ntsb is going to do a thorough and independent investigation. i've already talked to the chair about that investigation. she's going to keep us informed. there'll be very transparent. we want to understand the circumstances the vessel and the movement of the vessel and what was done immediately before and after the impact. all that our information that we need to have an independent investigation done. so yes, we're very concerned about whether all percussions were vessel the bridge took five

years to build and we've noticed that officials have not been wanting to give estimates of how long this may take to rebuild. but do you think that it can be rebuilt more quickly than that? >> well, to having just visited the scene, the coast guard took me out and i took a look at it. it's very complicated. we have to get this vessel out safely from where it is today and it's precarious position, it's partly in the channel itself. we've got to get that channel open does quickly as we possibly can, because every day is closed, it's millions and millions of dollars lost through the local economy and effects not only our nation, but the global supply chains. so that's our first priority after recovery is to get the channel open, get that vessel out of the channel altogether before we even talk about the plans for rebuilding the bridge itself so it's going to take some time. but the urgency is now we've got to move as

quickly as we possibly can, but we have to make sure it's safe. there are things that are in the riverbed today coming off of the vessel or the bridge that we have to make sure secure before we have workers there's involved in trying to get the channel open or a bridge replaced. >> the president says that he'll need the cooperation of congress for the federal government to pay for rebuilding. i know that you have spoken to democratic leadership do you have any concerns about republican support when it comes to that stated goal >> when we had these >> types of >> catastrophic events affecting critical transportation infrastructure, our nation has always come together to cover the costs. president biden has made that commitment. i've talked to my colleague it's on both sides of the aisle i am very hopeful that congress will cooperate and make sure that the resources are there so that we can open our channel and get that replaced as quickly as

possible. we'll need cooperation and i am hopeful that my colleagues will provide that cooperation. do >> you expect that there will be funding for those who if they're not out of work at this very moment, may be here in the coming weeks as this channel is not yet opened breonna, that's a very important point. there's a lot of people aren't going to get paychecks. the direct impact on the port of baltimore by payroll, would those who work at the ports $2 million a day. but it's the impact is far greater than that. there's small businesses that won't have customers. there. they're related business does this is that relate upon the port that are going to be in jeopardy and it's a commuter traffic across the bridge that will cause a loss in our economy. we want to make sure that these individuals are properly compensated. now, we'll see about responsibilities and who is responsible. third parties, but we also have to be mindful that the existing mechanisms to protect our workforce may need

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2020 election was stolen? that's generally not a question you would expect an a job interview, but that's what current and potential staffers at the rnc are being asked to sources familiar telling cnn that trump advisers are using the question as an apparent litmus test for their hiring. this comes after the trump campaign effectively merged operations with the rnc, putting loyalists to the former president in charge cnn's kristen holmes joins us now with her reporting. kristen. this tells you a lot about the focus of the rnc now as it's kind of merged into trump world. >> yeah. >> well, one, they're one in the same, so it's not even just merged at this point. they're operating seven actually, i'm gonna read a statement from someone who is both the rnc and trump campaign spokesperson. so goes to show you there, but it's not surprising that both the rnc and the campaign are putting a value on loyalty. loyalty is incredibly important to donald trump and part of that loyalty is sharing the same beliefs that he has and he has repeatedly said that he still believes the 2020

election was stolen. now, it's not that surprising that the rnc is turning its focus to what they call a lesh election integrity or a focus on election fraud, stay reminder that donald trump's handpicked candidate to run the rnc, michael whatley said he was going to focus on this. that is why donald trump likes him so much, because he thinks that whatley really knows a lot about quote, unquote election integrity. they've also staffed up with lawyers who are going to focus on the election. one of the reasons that donald trump had a falling out with ronna mcdaniel was because of the fact he didn't think that we're enough lawyers in place during the 2020 election to help secure his victory. now, this is the response that we got from this spokesperson, both rnc and trump campaign. they said canada to worked on the frontlines in battleground states, or are currently in states where fraud allegations have been prevalent, were asked about their work experience we want experienced staff with meaningful views on how elections are won and d lost, ad real experience-based opinions about what happens in the trenches now, unsurprisingly,

we've already heard from the biden campaign on this. they are going scorched earth, saying elections are only fair if donald trump wins. again, not that surprising here yeah, we should point out just point of fact, the 2020 election was not stolen. there is zero evidence that there was widespread fraud. nevertheless, the former president continues to espouse these lies. he also is promoting stuff last month he was trying to sell some sneakers. now, take a look at what former president trump is selling this bible is the king james version and also includes our founding fathers documents. yes, the constitution. i brad you endorse and encourage you to get this bible. we must make america pray again. >> it is $160. donald trump and lee greenwood branded bible. >> lee >> greenwood. and let's just remind everybody the country. you say, bless the usa, and it's actually called the god bless the usa bible. it is the only bible if you look on their

website that has endorsed by both donald trump and lee greenwood. so it's all those facts on there. they also >> include the >> declaration of independence inside the bible, which is an interesting part of a bible. but what's interesting here is the fact that this is not necessarily a trump product. the sneakers were at trump product. this is a lee greenwood product, which trump is getting behind and issuing this video that we're playing here of him essentially giving an infomercial on truth social about buying this bible. it comes at a time which we know he's had astronomical legal fees. it also comes at a time in which he has been looking for various outlets to raise money, including nfts, as you noted, sneakers. now, this is not hype this project alone again, lee greenwood, he's getting some royalties from it, so it's essentially selling his brand's something he's been doing for the last several decades >> but this one, >> we still to some evangelical leaders to see what they thought of it haven't heard back yet, but it seems like it might be something that they do not like he's also had some confusion with bibles in the

past. remember that photo-op outside of lafayette square in 2020 after they cleared protestors violently, he held it backwards he also talked about two corinthians. he he's not a religious guy >> and i think that that the him selling bibles is not because he's a really let us guy and we know that, but he does still appeal to evangelicals in huge numbers. something to definitely still no, yeah. >> kristen holmes. appreciate the report. thanks so much >> still ahead. the utah women's basketball coach says that her team had to switch hotels because of racist incidents. >> the fbi is now getting involved. the very latest after a quick break >> the lead with jake tapper today it on cnn >> kinda riva support your brain health. >> mary janet, hey, eddie. now, fraser, franck. franck, bread. how are you? >> fred, fuel up to seven brain health indicators, including your memory, joined the nar riva brain health challenge

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team says it was left deeply troubled and shaken after facing what officials called hateful and disturbing racial abuse. it happened ahead of the ncw tournaments opening game in south dakota? yeah. so the team was on in its way to dinner when this vehicle drove past it, than someone inside shouted racial slurs at them. and here's coach lynne roberts describing what happened we had several instances of some kind of racial >> hate crimes towards our program you know, white, black, green, whatever. no one knew how to handle it. you know >> and it was really upsetting >> so the team moved hotels after this experience that was very jarring they filed a police report. we have seen in sports analyst in usa today columnist christine brennan, who is joining us now with more part of this was that they were in a hotel quite far away from

the tournament in spokane. they weren't quarterly in idaho. christine. and obviously this was incredibly jarring for them. ultimately, they lost in the tournament and you have to wonder how this may have ultimately affected their play brianna, this is on the ncaa on the organizers of this spokane region, or how on earth you could not figure out a >> way to put this team and at least one or two others in spokane. i understand that there was a volleyball tournament going on. there were obviously a real premium put on on rooms and finding rooms. if that's the case, that has to be dealt with ahead of time, it seems to me, and the ncaa has to say, well, you can't host if you can't house these teams, idaho, as we know, recently has passed an anti diversity law there have been other issues in the past with idaho, which is so unfortunate and we hate when politics intrudes with sports. but here we are.

>> and the ncaa, the health, >> the welfare, the safety of the athletes in the men's and women's tournament. that is their most concern. and this is absolutely on the organizers and on the ncaa for allowing this to even have a chance to happen by having this team as well as others so far away from the actual event like christina ncw has condemned this. i'm wondering if you think there's more that they can do now, like what kind of responsibility they now have to investigate? >> yeah, they should. boris and i think they will obviously, there's also the authorities are looking into this, so that's good news. and it also frankly the conversation as troubling as this is, it's an important conversation as we know, sports can often take us two important national conversations here we are that's i think a good thing out of something so terrible is that we're shining a light on what these athletes had to go through. i mean, this is the highlight of their college careers. they have made the

ncaa tournament. they're going to dinner to celebrate and get ready for their first game, which is by the way, they won the first round. and instead, there they're subjected to hate crimes, to racial taunts, to slurs, to the worst words and the worst of us. shame on everyone involved. and i would hope the ncaa with look at where they're locating these events and you can't take politics out of this. if there is any chance that there would be trouble in a state or a city, it is time for the ncaa and any organizing body to understand that that can impact athletes especially athletes of color. and also women. and that's just a fact of our world in 2024. and i think the ncaa has to be very realistic about that. morris and understand that they have to be liters here. they have to decide what they want to do and make sure that they protect these young athletes. >> yeah, let's be clear for people who don't know quarterly in idaho is an incredibly beautiful place. it's also the

founding birthplace of the area and nation and it is known for some of its white supremacist affiliation, certainly historically, they were able to move hotels. christine, but part of that was after hotel space had freed up as these tournaments moved on, and some people went out of town and i wonder some of the men's teams as well. i wonder if to you that speaks to some of the inequality that we see in men's and women's sports in prioritizing the man over the women >> well, certainly that has been the case for you, as you know. and we saw that crystal clear with the oregon video during the pandemic when they showed the weight room for the women versus the weight room for the man, which was of course a complete joke. and really triggered an avalanche of change, including the fact that march madness was a brand that the women were not using. now they are, of course, we have caitlin clark, we are seeing the tv ratings go through the roof and everything has really changed. and yet, the idea that you would be housing these teams so far away

understandably a volleyball tournaments in town, then in that case, it seems to me the ncaa is to say, okay, spokane, gonzaga, you cannot host because you cannot provide lodging near the arena. and we're going to find another place to host. and that's, that's a very easy answer, but absolutely sexism is a part of this conversation as well as racism christine brennan appreciate your insight on this. thanks for being with us >> thank you >> still plenty more news to come. cnn returns in just a moment. >> okay, yeah, we got orders coming in, starting a business is never easy. a star and eight months pregnant, that's a different story i couldn't slow down. >> we were >> starting a business from it ground of people were showing up left and right. >> and >> so did our business needs the chase, a car made it easy. when you go for something big like this, your kid good seated and they believe they can do the same for an unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase for the chase ink business on live and make more of what's yours

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